Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, October 21, 1993 TAG: 9310210233
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The announcement about the negotiations breakdown between the NBA team and Spectacor, the company trying to build Spectrum II, raised questions about whether New Jersey has succeeded in luring the 76ers across the Delaware River.
"In view of Spectacor's announcement today, we will study our alternatives as to where we will play in the future," team owner Harold Katz said Wednesday. Katz, however, assured the team would remain in the Philadelphia area.
"This is a tremendous setback," said Ed Snider, founder of the company, Spectacor, owner of the Flyers and the driving force behind the proposed $200 million Spectrum II.
Spectacor said the status of the 76ers' present lease with the Spectrum was uncertain. The lease was renegotiated when New Jersey first tried to lure the 76ers to Camden.
\ The National Association of Basketball Coaches closed its inaugural Issues Summit in Charlotte, N.C., optimistic about changing the rules governing college basketball.
The final panel discussion of the two-day mini-convention turned into a dialogue on what coaches can do to eliminate the myriad of regulations that have become the way of the sport in the 1990s.
"A lot of the time restrictions and rules being discussed were put in place to ensure that the athletic department, an auxiliary department at most universities, didn't continue to produce auxiliary students," said Wake Forest president Thomas Hearn, the chair of the NCAA Presidents Commission Ethics Planning Group. "We did not want any student-athlete majoring in eligibility. Those are not real students and we are not going to budge on this issue."
Coaches pointed to rules that forbid them from watching players in pickup games before the Oct. 30 start of practice or even talking about basketball with the players they spent so such much time and effort recruiting.
by CNB